A bit of an accolade by Fred Schruers on The Dogtown website.
Who he ed?… A bit about Fred on his about page… you getthe idea
“Humblebrags will strut and fret their way through these postings. Name drops too, but always with a kernel of insight, a nod to –let’s just name it—pop culture and its history.
So indeed, why not recall how Keith Richards served me a snort of Rebel Yell at Belushi’s Phantom Rhino Bar? Playing bartender in a noisy downtown pop-up for a Saturday Night Live after-party, he took my order faced away but engaging me in the mirror with one gimlet eye.
And that event reminds me how Pete Rose shot a similar look in a Shea Stadium mirror while describing how he hit that double off some Mets pitcher who hung a curve.
Or there’s the time Bob Marley passed me a joint across the aisle of a small turboprop plane in a thunderstorm between Barcelona and Paris. Much of the bucket list has been checked off.
I’ve been in the back seat of an F-14, the belly of a nuclear sub, tagged along on Navy SEALs training ops. The cast has included film stars, rock stars, and the odd lawyer, detective, financier, demolisher, producer or poet, and much more.
These are things AI has never properly characterized, is what I mean to say. What was the rich, embedded access of the decades I spent on assignment for Rolling Stone and Premiere magazines, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and several now-buried websites, is generally a quaint memory.”
One of those people who has been there, seen it, smoked it, and got the T-shirt… and… one of those people who gets it.
We have recieved high praise indeed from a pro
“This brand of artistry which has its roots in such storied, handcrafted works as the Book of Kells, is richly and newly evoked in such coffee table treasures as the Island books.
“A kaleidoscopic two-volume tapestry spanning (thus far) 1959-1970 in pop music history, it’s a seemingly immense labor that Neil and a tight cadre of colleagues have stuffed with evocative art in the form of photos, handbills, and skeins of reflective quotes from those who were there.
“Perhaps the richest memory-stirring of all comes in the form the near-bewildering variety of album covers, many full-size in the same 12”x12” format of the glory-days LP sleeves.
Some pretty fascinating stuff worth reading
… you won’t be disappointed
